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Open Source Transcription Software?

Posted by kdawson on from the what-he-said dept.

sshirley writes "I am beginning to do some interviews with family members and will do some audio journals for genealogy purposes. I would really love to be able to run the resulting MP3 or WAV files through some software a get a text file out. I know that software like this exists commercially. But does this exist in the open source world?"

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  1. Re:Got kids? by Luckyo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is one of the cases where journey matters as much if not more then destination :)

  2. Re:Dear aunt, by BitZtream · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ironically, I have a family member he runs a business doing transcription for doctors ... because every time the try voice recognition software they get pissed off and go back to real people.

    Being a fan of Dragon Dictate myself, I know its not that great and I know it has a fit when you start throwing accents at it, training or not.

    I call bullshit on your claims of using Dragon for everything.

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